XXIV. A One-Text Print of Chaucer's Minor Poems, being the best Text from the Parallel-Text Edition, Part I, containing, I. The Dethe of Blaunche the Duchesse, II. The Compleynt to Pite, III. The Parlament of Foules, IV. The Compleynt of Mars, V. The ABC, with its original from DeGuileville's Pélerinage de la Vie humaine (edited from the best Paris MSS by M. Paul Meyer).

Of the Second Series, the issue for 1868 is,

1. English Pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, by Alexander J. Ellis, Esq., F.R.S. Part I. This work includes an amalgamation of Prof. F. J. Child's two excellent and exhaustive Papers on the use of the final e by Chaucer (in T. Wright's ed. of The Canterbury Tales) and by Gower (in Dr Pauli's ed. of the Confessio Amantis).

2. Essays on Chaucer, his Words and Works: 1. Prof. Ebert's Review of Sandras's Etude sur Chaucer, translated by J. W. van Rees Hoets, M.A.; 2. A 13th-century Latin Treatise on the Chilindre (of the Shipman's Tale), edited by Mr E. Brock.

3. A Temporary Preface to the Society's Six-Text edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Part I, attempting to show the right Order of the Tales, and the Days and Stages of the Pilgrimage, &c., &c., by F. J. Furnivall, Esq., M.A.

Of the Second Series the issue for 1869 is,

4. English Pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, by Alexander J. Ellis, Esq., F.R.S. Part II.

Of the Second Series the issue for 1870 is,

5. English Pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, by Alexander J. Ellis, Esq., F.R.S. Part III.

Of the Second Series the issue for 1871 will be

6. Trial-Forewords to my Parallel-Text edition of Chaucer's Minor Poems for the Chaucer Society (with a try to set Chaucer's Works in their right order of Time), by Fredk. J. Furnivall. Part I.

And such of the following as the subscriptions will pay for :

7. Supplementary Canterbury Tales: 1. The Tale of Beryn, with a Prologue of the merry Adventure of the Pardoner with a Tapster at Canterbury, re-edited from the Duke of Northumberland's unique MS, by Fredk. J. Furnivall. (The text is all printed.)

[In the Press.

8. The original of Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale of Constance, from the French Chronicle of Nicholas Trivet, Arundel MS 56, ab. 1340 A.D., collated with the later copy, ab. 1400, in the National Library at Stockholm; copied and edited, with a translation, by Mr Edmund Brock. Also, two French poems resembling the Reeve's Tale. (The Texts are all printed.)

[In the Press. 9. Essays on Chaucer, his Words and Works: 3. John of Hoveden's Practica Chilindri, edited from the MS, with a translation, by Mr E. Brock. 4. Chaucer's use of the final e, by Joseph Payne, Esq., with an Appendix, containing Dr R. F. Weymouth's Paper on Anglo-Saxon and Early English Pronunciation. [In the Press. 10. Prof. Bernhard Ten Brink's "Chaucer: Studies on the History of his Developement, and the Chronology of his Writings," Part I, translated by Miss Ottilie Blind, and revised by the author.

For 1872, Part IV of the Six-Text edition, containing the rest of Group B,-that is, the Tales of Melibe, the Monk, and the Nun's Priest;-Group C, the Doctor's and Pardoner's Tales; and Group D, the Tales of the Wife of Bath, Friar, and Summoner, has gone to press, for the First Series. Copy for the second and third Parts of the Parallel-Text and other Editions of the Minor Poems is also in the printers' hands, and will be printed as soon as money is forthcoming to pay for it. For the Second Series, A detailed Comparison of the Troylus and Cryseyde with Boccaccio's Filostrato,' by W. MICHAEL ROSSETTI, Esq., is finisht, and A detailed Comparison of Chaucer's Knight's Tale with the Teseide of Boccaccio,' by HENRY WARD, Esq., of the MS Department of the British Museum, is preparing.

The second French work will be either Guillaume de Machault's Remède de Fortune and Dit de la Fontaine Amoureuse (to compare with Chaucer's Dethe of Blaunche), or Jean de Meung's Livre de Melibée et de Prudence (from Albertano of Brescia's Liber Consolationis, A.D. 1246) or Guillaume de Machault's Dit du Lyon, the possible original of Chaucer's lost Book of the Leo, edited from the MSS, by Monsieur PAUL MEYER. This will be followed by such originals of Chaucer's other works as are known, but are not of easy access to subscribers.

Messrs Trübner & Co., of 60, Paternoster Row, London, E. C., are the Society's publishers, Messrs Childs its printers, and the Union Bank, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., its bankers. The yearly subscription is two guineas, due on every 1st January, beginning with Jan. 1, 1868. More Members are wanted.

Prof. Child, of Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the Society's Honorary Secretary for America. Members' names and subscriptions may be sent to the Publishers, or to the Honorary Secretary,

A. G. SNELGROVE, ESQ.,.
London Hospital, London, E.

A One-Text Print

of

Chaucer's Minor
Minor Poems,

BEING THE BEST TEXT OF EACH POEM IN

THE PARALLEL-TEXT EDITION, ETC.,

FOR HANDY USE BY EDITORS AND READERS.

EDITED BY

FREDERICK J. FURNIVALL.

PART II.

VI. Mother of God, from Phillipps MS.

VII. Anelida and Arcite, from Harleian MS. 7333 (Shirley).

VIII. The Former Age, from Cambridge MS. Ii. 3. 21.

IX. Adam Scrivener, from MS. R. 3. 20 (Shirley's), Trin. Coll. Library.

X. The House of Fame, from Fairfax MS. 16 (Bodl. Libr.).

XI. The Legend of Good Women, from Cambr. Univ. MS. Gg. 4. 27, and Fairfax MS. 16.

XII. Truth, from the Addit. MS. 10,340, Brit. Mus.

XIII. The Compleynt of Venus, from Shirley's MS. R. 3. 20, Trinity College,

Cambridge.

XIV. Envoy to Scogan, from MS. Gg. 4. 27, Univ. Libr., Cambr.

XV. Marriage, or Bukton, from Fairfax MS. 16, Bodl. Libr.

XVI. Gentilesse, from Shirley's Ashmole MS. 59, Bodl. Libr.

XVII. Proverbs, from Shirley's MS. Additional 16,165, British Museum. XVIII. Lack of Stedfastness, from the Harleian MS. 7333, Shirley's, or copied from Shirley.

XIX. Fortune, from MS. Ii. 3. 21, Cambridge University Library.

XX. Purse, from Fairfax MS. 16, Bodleian Library.

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THE CHAUCER SOCIETY'S PUBLICATIONS.

To do honour to CHAUCER, and to let the lovers and students of him see how far the best unprinted Manuscripts of his works differd from the printed texts, this Society was founded in 1868. There were then, and are still, many questions of metre, pronunciation, orthography, and etymology yet to be settled, for which more prints of Manuscripts were and are wanted; and it is hardly too much to say that every line of Chaucer contains points that need reconsideration. The founder (Mr Furnivall) began with The Canterbury Tales, and has given of them (in parallel columns in Royal 4to) six of the best theretofore unprinted Manuscripts known. Inasmuch as the parallel arrangement necessitated the alteration of the places of certain tales in Some of the MSS, a print of each MS has been issued separately, following the order of its original. The first six MSS printed have been: the Ellesmere (by leave of the Earl of Ellesmere); the Hengwrt (by leave of W. W. E. Wynne, Esq.); the Camb. Univ. Libr., MS Gg. 4. 27; the Corpus, Oxford; the Petworth (by leave of Lord Leconfield); and the Lansdowne 851 (Brit. Mus.). The Harleian 3374 will follow. Of Chaucer's Minor Poems,-the MSS of which are generally later than the best MSS of the Canterbury Tales,-all the available MSS have been printed so as to secure all the existing evidence for the true text.

The Boece from the best MS, and the Troilus Parallel-Text from the 3 best MSS, are now nearly all in type.

To secure the fidelity and uniform treatment of the texts, Mr F. J. Furnivall has read and will read all with their MSS.

The Society's publications are issued in two Series, of which the first contains the different texts of Chaucer's works; and the Second, such originals of and essays on these as can be procured, with other illustrative treatises, and Supplementary Tales. FIRST SERIES.

The Society's issue for 1868, in the First Series, is,

I. The Prologue and Knight's Tale, of the Canterbury Tales, in 6 parallel Texts (from the 6 MSS named below), together with Tables, showing the Groups of the Tales, and their varying order in 38 MSS of the Tales, and in 5 old printed editions, and also Specimens from several MSS of the "Moveable Prologues" of the Canterbury Tales,-The Shipman's Prologue, and Franklin's Prologue,-when moved from their right places, and of the Substitutes for them. (The Six-Text, Part I.)

II. The Prologue and Knight's Tale from the Ellesmere

MS.

(separate issues of the Texts forming Part I of the Six-Text edition.)

The issue for 1869, in the First Series, is, VIII. The Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's Tales:

with an Appendix of Gamelyn

from six MSS.

(separate issues of the Texts forming the Six-Text, Part II, No. XIV.)

The issue for 1870, in the First Series, is,

XIV. The Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's Tales, with an Appendix of the Spurious Tale of Gamelyn, in 6 parallel Texts. (Six-Text, Part II.)

The issue for 1871, in the First Series, is,

XV. The Man of Law's, Shipman's, and Prioress's Tales, with Chaucer's own Tale of Sir Thopas, in 6 parallel Texts from the MSS above named, and 10 coloured drawings of Tellers of Tales, after the originals in the Ellesmere MS. XVI. The Man of Law's Tale, from the Ellesmere MS.

,, Corpus MS.

XIX. The Shipman's, Prioress's, and Man of Law's Tales, from the Petworth MS. XX. The Man of Law's Tale, from the Lansdowne MS.

(each with woodcuts of fourteen drawings of Tellers of Tales in the Ellesmere MS.)

VI.

Mother of God.

[For the Latin Prayer, O Intemerata, which is the source of the last 6 stanzas of Chaucer's poem, see the Parallel-Text Print.]